On January 15, 2025, the US Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule (IFR) that imposes new controls on advanced computing integrated circuits (Advanced ICs) and certain artificial intelligence (AI) model weights.
These new controls build upon and expand BIS’ existing suite of export controls on Advanced ICs and semiconductor manufacturing equipment and are intended to prevent adversaries and malicious actors from accessing the most advanced US AI models and the large clusters of Advanced ICs necessary to train such models.